The Most Well-Written Books of the 21st Century by Black Women
Discover the most well-written books of the 21st century by Black women. Explore powerful stories, groundbreaking narratives, and literary excellence in this curated list of must-read works.
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Mama Day
by Gloria Naylor
A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, …
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Sugar
by Bernice L. McFadden
Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, this tale of loyalty and friendship between two African-American women finds Jude turning to the church …
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
Two black women grow up in a small Ohio town, mature along sharply divergent paths, confront and reconcile with each other.
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and …
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The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones “[A] shrewd and lyrical …
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The Men of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inhabited that desolate block of row houses, telling their …
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper
Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear …
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The Street
by Ann Petry
A young African American woman struggles to retain her moral integrity and guard her small son from evil in Harlem.
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
by Alice Walker
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After …
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Douglass' Women
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
WINNER OF THE 2003 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WRITING AND THE BLACK CAUCUS OF THE ALA LITERARY AWARD Frederick Douglass, the great …
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Mama
by Terry McMillan
The explosive novel that introduced the world to #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan. Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of …
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she …
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. One of The …
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Love
by Toni Morrison
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women …
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," …
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Miss Ophelia
by Mary Burnett Smith
Part coming-of-age story and part slice of life, this is a literary novel about African-Americans in the rural South. Set in rural Virginia during 1948, …
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